Boxing Day set a new UK record for online shopping, figures showed today, as
crowds descended on malls and high streets for another day of bargain
hunting.

While thousands of shoppers queued outside stores across Britain to be first
in when the doors opened this morning, millions more saved the trip and made
the most of tumbling prices from their sofas or kitchen tables.

Britons spent 14 million hours trawling websites yesterday, paying around 113
million visits to online retailers on what became the UK’s biggest day for
internet shopping, analysts said.